PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Observational Learning, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Ayca Guler- Edwards

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Note: this is the beginning of the material for the final exam. Chapter 6: learning: behavioural theory & foundations of the process of learning. Skinner & operant conditioning (nature & function: bandura & observational learning. Learning: learning is an adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience. Interaction between human or human themselves: making connections (associations) between events. Events in its self or in the environment. Learning: behavioural theories attempt to relate units of behaviour, called responses, to units of the environment, called stimuli (the plural of stimulus). Focusing upon explaining current behaviour and predicting future behaviour (relating future stimuli to future responses) You can make a prediction in future certain theories, to predict behaviour. The process is functional, and it is able to learn: evolutionary theories would focus on the adaptive aspects of learning to survival.